Fight Against Displacement, High Rents, and Racism!

Rally @ City Hall, Broadway Side Wed., Oct. 26 @ 3:30pm

We, the people from the Lower East Side and Chinatown, are fighting against displacement and to pass the Chinatown Working Group rezoning to protect our community. Our voices can no longer be ignored. More and more elected officials and candidates support our demands.But Mayor de Blasio is colluding with sellout City Council Member Margaret Chin, continuing to ignore the people’s efforts to bring a “People First” rezoning change. They intend to dismantle our rezoning plan, dividing the community to create conflict among Chinese, Latino, and African American people who live and work in the community. Now, they say only the Chinatown area of the rezoning plan should go first, while the majority Latino and African American Lower East Side should go later, denying us equal protection.

At the same time, the City is dragging out the process of passing our full rezoning plan so that developers like Extell and JDS are able to build high-rise luxury towers and destroy our community. The de Blasio Administration is colluding with developers, as brought to light by recent federal investigation, while the community’s needs for affordable housing are being ignored. We demand:

1. End racism in city planning. Pass community-based “People First” plans like the Chinatown Working Group rezoning plan.
2. End public funding for luxury development, such as 421-a. Instead, use public resources to preserve and build more permanent low-income housing.
3. Stop privatization of public land and assets.
4. Mayor de Blasio and those City elected officials who also collude with developers should step down.